Event
Financing Advanced Energy Technologies
Friday, October 30, 2026
1:15 p.m.-2:30 a.m.
Webinar
Catherine Stephens
301 405 9378
csteph5@umd.edu
https://www.nationalacademies.org/projects/CAST-PSSI-26-P-748/event/47336
This webinar will ask which commercial capital pools are available at each stage of technology maturity, what conditions must be present for those investors to participate, and where gaps remain that require catalytic, public, or philanthropic capital. The discussion will explore how investors distinguish between hardtech, capital-light models, manufacturing scale-up, first-of-a-kind projects, and mature infrastructure-like assets; how they evaluate technology, market, policy, execution, and offtake risk; and what structures can help bridge the path from early commercial traction to large-scale deployment. The webinar aims to give participants a practical map of the commercial capital landscape: who invests where, why they invest, what they need to see, and how their participation changes as technologies move from development to deployment.
